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First there was Janet Jackson NOW Brandy will also ring in the new year with a ring on her finger! The 33 year old “Put It Down” singer, is engaged to Ryan Press. According to an insider, “They are thrilled and happy and Brandy feels this is so right.” Prior to accepting Press’ proposal, Brandy had openly expressed her desire to marry the music executive. “I keep hearing about a ring. People keep calling me, hinting to me about it, but I don’t know,” she told Sister2Sister magazine in August. “I’m going to be patient and let it happen and just let it be. . . I guess it will happen when it’s the right time. I stopped looking for love and then I ran into my boyfriend.” She continued, “He just loves me for who I am. I don’t have to camouflage anything for him or put on a mask. I can completely be myself and he loves me so much and I love him just the way he is, too.” This will be the first marriage for the “Put It Down” singer, who has a 10-year-old daughter, Sy’rai...

What has Janet Jackson’s boyfriend done for her lately? A source tells Us Weekly that Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana “gave her a huge, expensive ring” earlier this year. “She’s afraid it will get lost, so she keeps it locked up!” The luxury-brand mogul, 37, will spare no expense on his wedding to Miss Jackson, set for spring in Qatar. The affair “will cost millions,” reveals a second Jackson insider. “He is flying in all of Janet’s friends and family on private jets.” The L.A.-based singer has seven siblings and more than 20 nieces and nephews. Adds the source, “He wants to get a top chef to create a custom menu.” The ceremony will undoubtedly be “a circus,” another source says. The twice-wed Nutrisystem spokeswoman, 46 — who split from Jermaine Dupri in 2009 — is eager to make it official with her love of two years. “She wants kids,” says the Jackson source. “If she can’t have them, she will adopt.” SOURCE: USWEEKLY

The Oxygen network is working on a new one-hour special, “All My Babies’ Mamas”, revealing the complicated lives of one man, his baby mamas, and their army of children. The show features Atlanta rapper Shawty Low, his 10 baby mamas and their 11 kids! “Oxygen will give fans an intimate look at unconventional families with larger than life personalities and real emotional stakes,” says Cori Abraham, Senior Vice President of Development, Oxygen Media. “’All My Babies’ Mamas’ will be filled with outrageous and authentic over-the-top moments that our young, diverse female audience can tweet and gossip about.” All My Babies Mamas FINAL 10.1.12 by dm_50db96d297d08 SOURCE: OGYEN

In the pic below you can see the family of the deceased thought it would be a good idea to put the body on a motorcycle! Apparently this isn’t a first…we found another pic of the same damn thang SCOOP: GBS

According to a new study, squeezing breasts can prevent cancer. More specifically, the, research from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that mechanical force can stop the rapid growth of cancer cells as well as guide them back to a normal, healthy growth pattern. There were no boobs squeezed in the study. It was a cell culture experiment, not an experiment on boobs or on people with breast cancer. While a study that involves boob squeezing probably sounds fun to our male readers freaks , that’s not what this study was about. The headlines all took the “boob squeezing is good,” angle, though the researchers specifically stateS: “Compression, in and of itself, is not likely to be a therapy.” The reports say “prevent breast cancer” when the study shows nothing of the sort — it shows that under cell culture conditions, application of manual forces can change the breast cancer cells. Actual breast cancer is much much more complicated...

The Brooklyn Nets have fired coach Avery Johnson. The team is 14-14 right now, clinging to the final playoff spot in the East. But they are 3-10 in December, including a Christmas Day beating at home to Boston on national TV. Johnson has been on the hot seat ever since $100-million point guard Deron Williams openly questioned his offensive philosophy last week. There are obvious reasons why the Nets are struggling a bit. They spent $330 million to bring in an entirely new group of players this summer, and they need time to play together. It also didn’t help that starting center Brook Lopez went out with a foot injury in mid-December. Were 28 games enough time to figure it out? Apparently not, according to Nets owner Mikahil Prokhorov. It was believed that Johnson would be given more time to turn things around after nine losses in 12 games against mostly winning teams. Ironically, Johnson was named Eastern Conference ...

Police said two toddlers, who died in a fire early Saturday morning, were left alone with two other children when the blaze broke out inside their Englewood home. Family and friends gathered for a vigil to honor 2-year-old Jaryiah and 3-year-old Jarvis Meakens at 8 p.m. Saturday. The two siblings were alone with two other children with the blaze ignited. Investigators are questioning their mother Tatiana Meakens, seen below. Fire officials found that a hot plate being used for heat caused the fatal fire. When the flames ignited, a relative helped two boys to safety, but Jariyah and Jarvis remained trapped inside the apartment. “They said they heard the baby crying, beating on the door but they couldn’t go back to get her cause they were choking on the smoke,” said neighbor Tiffany Williams as to what the 7 and 4-year-old boys who managed to escape the fire told her. A resident who called 911 just before 3:30 a.m. told authorities young children were trapped insid...